The Blue Plate Diner - Salt Lake City

I'm starting to understand the Salt Lake City vibe.  It's kind of a funky, hippie, sporty, chilled-out attitude.  I think that I understand what John Denver meant by the "Rocky Mountain High" that he sung about years ago.  The Rockies hang in the background like a tapestry to remind you where you are.  There are relatively few overweight people walking around and a lot of people with backpacks and riding bicycles.  They seem to be connected to the earth and like their food to be natural, too.

I went to the Blue Plate Diner for breakfast.  I don't think that I've ever reviewed a restaurant for breakfast.  So, another DDD review first.

I ordered the verde chili breakfast burritto.  The plate came out absolutely piping hot and the waitress with the asbestos fingers moved it over to me.  It looked appetizing enough but, the verde sauce didn't look very green to me. It was more of an earthen brown. Not sure what was up with that?

Once I dug into it, any previous hangup was gone.  It had a nice initial spicy hot kick to it that didn't persist.  It was really tasty and damned large.  You could have split it between three people.

I liked the fact that you could substitute egg beaters© for eggs, which I did.  The taste really didn't suffer because of it.  I think that it might have been too heavy cooked with real eggs.  Real eggs also have more of a dominant flavor to them.


I've just recently discovered that I like avocado sauce.  So, I'm a poor judge of avocado dips or anything but, this avocado sauce was pretty good.

The atmosphere was that vibe that I just mentioned.  The crowd leaned more toward hippie. There were normal neighborhood people mixed in with lots of tie dye, tattoos and dreadlocks. I could smell
Marijuana in someone's clothes as they walked past me.  They had an old Honda motorcycle and some old bicycles chained to the building.   It was classic diner with the old fashioned soda fountain and stools around a Formica bar with stainless steel piping. I counted seven pictures of Elvis Presley.

I'd give bps a 9.3. I liked it and I think you would, too.

The Blue Plate Diner
2041 South 21st East
Salt Lake City, UT 84108